This is a song about the Rangers and the battle of La Drang valley 1965.  The song is written in GI slang from Vietnam.  This song includes first hand accounts from my Uncle George Long who landed in LZ Falcon and had to hump it over to LZ X-Ray at about 3 AM.  My father Bryan Long, was also in country during the battle and we believe was at battalion HQ during the fighting.

The Perpetual Recreation

LZ X-Ray

The van broke down
just 5 miles from O'Hare
Not sure what we were doing
Had no tickets anyway
As the sun set in the West
We walked East
Planes roaring overhead

We ran as fast as we could run
Escape our only goal
From small town suffocation
And our designated roles
BBQs on Saturdays
Cold Millers with the guys
The vanishing horizon
Matched the dulling in our eyes

Not quite a decision
That either of us made
But a moment of clarity
And what it meant to stay
It never matters
Which road we take
As long as right beside me
I have Karla with a K

We ran as fast as we could run
Escape our only goal
From small town suffocation
And our designated roles
BBQs on Saturdays
Cold Millers with the guys
The vanishing horizon
Matched the dulling in our eyes

The excitement and the newness
As we move from town to town
As we worked to settle down
Turned piece by little piece
into what we'd sworn not to become
we lived the lives we ran from

We ran as fast as we could run
Escape our only goal
From small town suffocation
And our designated roles
BBQs on Saturdays
Cold Millers with the guys
The vanishing horizon
Matched the dulling in our eyes

The Vanishing Horizon

On May 10, 1996, three officers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Tsewang Samanla, Dorje Morup, and Tsewang Paljor, were part of a six-man expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.  Delayed and facing a storm, the three decided to disregard orders and press on while the rest of the team turned back.  Around 18:00 the climbers radioed their expedition leader back at base camp to inform that they had reached the summit.  While credited with summiting, whether they actually reached the summit or not is to this date debated.

These two songs wouldn’t exist if not for the irony surrounding the perishment of one of the climbers, Tsewang Paljor.  The irony is that Paljor became famous not in life but in death and simply because of the fact that his lifeless, frozen body, which no person or entity cared to remove from the side of the trail for at least 19 years, ended up becoming a landmark and reference point to climbers, his humanity reduced to an almost comical nickname stemming from the mountaineering boots on his feet and their bright yellowish-green color.  A Google search today of the keywords “Tsewang” and “Paljor” brings up, as the first result, a Wikipedia article entitled not “Tsewang Paljor”, but “Green Boots”.

“Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 1: Ascenso y muerte” is my reflection on Paljor’s resolve to climb, then the climb itself, then the summiting (or the thinking they had summited), and finally the descent and the exhaustion, confusion, and acceptance of defeat that probably came with it and the probable realization of impending death that frozen night as he lay curled up on his side, donning his brightly-colored mountaineering apparel, under a crevasse at the side of the climbers’ trail at 28,000 feet.

“Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 2: Fiesta en Leh” is an imagination of a summer day that Tsewang could have enjoyed as a young adult in his hometown’s capital, Leh, with friends and perhaps one or two love interests at hand.  An experience he might have remembered about during those few final minutes of his life.  

About the song names:  That isn’t me trying to be the most righteous of the lot.  Like, “look, I even include his military rank before his name, while everyone else just calls him ‘Green Boots’.”  I’m not trying to be judgmental or pretentious.  In fact, up until the last few minutes the songs were going to be called “Helado en altura 1” and “Helado en altura 2”.  “Helado en altura” translates roughly to “Ice cream at high altitude”, and is a pun because in Spanish “Helado” can also mean a frozen person, animal or thing.  So, for the cover artwork, I literally searched for frozen corpses in snow-capped mountains.  Not necessarily with those keywords.  And happened on Green Boots.  It was like the third result.  But ultimately, I felt it would be in bad taste to be so literal and use the pic and do the pun and all that.  In a way, the song titles are an atonement for my previous intentions.  And a pair of songs to honor a man who found very little dignity in death.  Some may point out the old adage that there “is no dignity in death”.  I’d say as so much else in life, that it’s a matter of degree.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and above all listen.  I hope you “get” the songs, and above all, enjoy them.  (No pun intended with “above”.)

Note:  from the information I had access to on the World Wide Web, Paljor’s body has not been officially identified or removed to this day.  However, it was last reported seen in 2015.  Its current location and state is, to the best of my web knowledge, unknown.

Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 2: Fiesta en Leh

Hawks Of Moon Mountain

Electric Resonance MST

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The first modern case of this kind to cause a sensation involved U.S. couple Betty and Barney Hill, who claimed to have sighted a UFO in 1961. After Betty suffered for months from nightmares concerning being in a laboratory equipped with unknown instruments, she and her husband were treated by hypnosis, with Barney Hill then describing similar experiences to his wife. Travis Walton had a similar experience in the 1970s. The phenomenon also became known to a wider circle through the writer Whitley Strieber, who had some personal experiences from 1985 examined in hypnosis sessions and presented them in his 1987 book Communion. However, Strieber does not insist on an extraterrestrial origin of the experience, but considers in detail the possibilities of the unconscious. The content of the book was filmed in 1989 under the same title as a feature film starring Christopher Walken.

It is difficult to obtain reliable figures on how many people claim to have been abducted by aliens and subjected to various medical experiments in their spaceships. In 1992, the American polling institute Roper published a survey according to which 3.7 million U.S. Americans had experiences that indicated abduction. The validity of this survey and its results has been challenged several times. A re-survey by Roper in 2002 found that 1.4% of the U.S. population recalled four out of five key abduction experiences.

A 1988 study at the University of New Mexico found that about 20% of volunteers injected with a high dose of dimethyltryptamine had identical experiences to that of an alien abduction......

The Vanished

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This is the first of three tracks inspired by a factoid I heard in an interview.  I was listing to a true crime podcast and the guest was an expert on Charles Manson and he said that The Tate murders, The haunted mansion opening day and the photograph for the album cover Abby Road by the Beatles all happened within a 48 hour period.  I found it interesting because of how connected those three events are to each other.  So this track has got multiple meanings.  It's about the Haunted Mansion at Disney World.  It's about the Sharon Tate murders and the alleged connection of Manson with the CIA (spooks).  Spook House-(slang) A headquarters for intelligence agents. All Lyrics, Music and instruments played by Vincent Cellar.  Music Produced by Dr. Stanley McFearon.

Gracey Manor

We are a musical duo from Bon Air Virginia.

LZ X-Ray

The Renaissance Cartel